The moment she realized Curtis had carried her again, her expression darkened. “Curtis, stop carrying me again and again! I can walk on my own!”
“The floor is cold, so I’ll carry you down and get the housekeeper to bring house slippers for you,” he nonchalantly said.
Then, with his knee against the wall, he easily opened the door and brought Rayna out.
“I don’t need you to carry me! Let go of me! Curtis Faymon, don’t be shameless! I don’t need you doing anything for me!”
No matter what curses she spewed, the man remained unperturbed. Livid, Rayna bit his shoulder.
Yet, instead of hearing a cry of pain from Curtis, she heard someone trying to hold back their laughter.
At that, Rayna lifted her head and found out that they were already downstairs. Alfred was standing a distance away, watching her every move. He was holding back his laughter as he looked at them with loving eyes.
A wave of awkwardness crashed into Rayna, and she pinched Curtis hard. “You’re shameless!”
“I did remind you. You just didn’t hear me.”
“Remind me? When did you even do that?”
The two of them were so close to each other, so there was no way she would not have heard him.
He didn’t say anything at all!
“Belle, how can you always ask Mr. Faymon to carry you?” came Linda’s voice. When she turned around, she saw that her mother was there too.
Rayna froze. “Mom, why are you here?”
“Xandra invited me here for a meal,” Linda answered. “Hurry up and come down. Everyone’s watching!”
Rayna shot Curtis a look. “He’s the one who insisted on carrying me!”
“It’s fine, Ms. Linda. She’s not heavy.” Curtis smiled at Linda.
Only after the housekeeper brought the cotton house slippers over did Curtis finally set her down.
The second Rayna put on the slippers, she hastily towed her mother along with her and put a distance between him and her.
Still smiling, Alfred said, “Rayna, are you hungry? Why don’t you eat with me before leaving? It’s been a long while since we’ve seen each other.”
Alfred was always nice to Rayna. Moreover, he was a soft-spoken elderly with weaker health, so Rayna found herself unable to reject him—she ended up agreeing to his request.
While eating, Alfred kept taking more and more food for Rayna. Once in a while, he would ask her about Glory and praise her for being capable.
He also kept taking food for Linda, saying, “You should eat more, Ms. Linda. You must have had a tough time taking care of Rayna all these years.”
“You’re too kind,” Linda exclaimed. “You’re older than me, so please just call me by my name. Please don’t be so formal with me, or else I’d be too frightened to come again!”
“Of course, of course.” Alfred nodded and smiled. “It’s as if you’re Xandra’s real sister. This is truly fated to be. Look at how the kids are together again.”
He then turned to Rayna and beamed at the young woman. “Rayna, you’re pregnant with triplets now. I’m sure it’s hard for you too.”
Alfred had just been ruminating about how gutsy his grandson was to make a fuss at the wedding, but when he found out that Rayna was pregnant, he was so excited he nearly had a heart attack.
He thought his grandson was snatching a wife back, but as it turned out, Curtis was snatching three babies back too.
Meanwhile, Rayna could not bring herself to say those cruel words to Alfred.
But she was devastated. She did not want to have any connections with Curtis anymore.
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